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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So a house on 5041 25th Street S sold for $560k (4 beds 1 bath) to a developer who is going to tear it down and build 2 houses that probably cost a million each. Perfect example of pricing people out of Arlington - it’s going to be all renters and rich people. The proponents of MMH were so dishonest (or just really uninformed) - this was never going to help bring affordable housing or more housing for minorities - just more density.

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The alternative was a builder buys it and builds a single 2.0 million house. Last time I checked 1.0 million is less than 2.0 million. It's adding more options in the middle.

No one ever said it was for affordable housing - you misunderstood them. 
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Well, the MM proponents were happy to have it misunderstood as "affordable housing" but plenty of people said it wouldn't be.

Looking at street view for that house/street, it actually seems like the kind of area where townhomes or a 4/6-plex would make sense. Very old, run down houses just off Route 7, behind a Taco Bell. Not a great location for a $2M house.[/quote]

Literally no one said it was going to be affordable housing. 
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Many said it would be “affordable” housing but redefined “affordable” as the above poster did.  A $1.5 million townhouse is more affordable than a $2.5 million single house.

Many also inferred it would be affordable because Arlington County did a miserable PR  job in rolling out the plan [/quote]

Why did they change the name from Missing Middle Housing (MMH) to Expanded Housing Options? Answer me that? Because people were led to believe that missing Middle priced homes would be the goal. Then when people called them out on this they needed to change the name. I was part of the meetings so you can’t spin this to me. They tried to sell MMH as housing for minorities and people that couldn’t currently afford Arlington. Then it turned out that these units were going to be around a million or up. Not really affordable at all. [/quote]

Isn’t “missing middle” the national term? My guess is they changed it for Arlington because opponents were deliberately defining it incorrectly to mislead people. I read the county report containing estimated MMH prices and income requirements and was never confused. [/quote]
Eh. People on Reddit clearly thought it meant affordable options and definitely thought it meant homes for sale rather than rentals. Why have the naacp come and talk about how it would impact black homeownership in Arlington if there was nothing in place to do encourage that outcome? All of the things that existed that make rentals more appealing now also existed in the past. [/quote]

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